Hello hbscoresby@optus,
I understand you just wanted to reconcile the BAS paid before using QuickBooks Online. Since there are no transactions recorded in QuickBooks Online for the period you wanted to reconcile the BAS payment, you can add the bank feed as an Expense transaction and allocate it to taxes paid (expense account). The expense will show in your P & L report as it is using an expense category.
As you can see the effect of using the journal entry giving you a negative balance of the BAS period you're paying is due to there are no transactions for the payment to balance to.
We'd also recommend reaching out to your accountant to get more information about how to record these journal or transaction to not mess up your books moving forward.
You can always reply to this thread if you have more questions. We'll make sure to get back to you as soon as we can.
